Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one's sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism.

- Presents an exciting contribution to one of the newest, most rapidly growing developments in queer studies; the consideration of queer temporalities or the discussion of time in relation to alternative queer identities.

Introduction: What is Queer about Nostalgia? 1. Animated Nostalgia: Invented Authenticity in Arte's Summer of the Sixties 2. Nostalgic Physique: Displaying Foucauldian Muscles and Celebrating the Male Body in Beefcake 3. Sexing the Past: Communal Exposure and Self Examination in Gay Sex in the 70s 4. Claiming Lost Gay Youth: Todd Haynes's Dottie Gets Spanked and Velvet Goldmine 5. Boys Want to Have Fun! Carnivalesque Adolescence and Nostalgic Resorts in Another Gay Movie and Another Gay Sequel 6. Reinventing Lesbian Youth in Su Friedrich's Cinematic Autoqueeroraphy Hide and Seek 7. Uses of Nostalgia in Musical Politicization of Homo/Phobic Myths in Were the World Mine, The Big Gay Musical and Zero Patience 8. Saint Gaga: Lady Gaga's Nostalgic Yearning for Queer Mythology, Monsters and Martyrs 9. Black Nostalgia: Poetry, Ethnicity and Homoeroticism in Looking for Langston and Brother to Brother Afterword: Queering Nostalgia or Queer Nostalgia?